Lord Krishna incarnated to destroy evil in a handful of individuals. But now, the evil qualities are not identifiable in a small group of people. They are widespread everywhere. The scorpion has poison only in its tail; the cobra only in its fangs; but people have poison all over them! They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere. You may ask, "Oh! When will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?" When the Lord enters your heart, that is the very objective He will accomplish. Offer unto the Lord, the 'flower of your heart' (Hrudaya Pushpam), after cleansing it thoroughly of the dust and pests (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc.) that infest it. Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
Baba (thought for the day)
What does Baba tell us here, that Lord Krishna just incarnated to destroy the evil in a handful individual. It was another time. Lord Krishna incarnated in the Dwapara Yuga and Baba said as much as I remember that evil was in the same family. And Rama was in the Treta Yuga.
In the Kali Yuga, in our Yuga, it seems the evil is in the same body.
What he explains is that the evil qualities cannot be identified in a small group of people as they have widespread everywhere.
The scorpion has poison only in its tail; the cobra only in its fangs; but people have poison all over them! They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere. You may ask, "Oh! When will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?" When the Lord enters your heart, that is the very objective He will accomplish. Offer unto the Lord, the 'flower of your heart' (Hrudaya Pushpam),after cleansing it thoroughly of the dust and pests (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc.) that infest it. Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
It is not possible to know the evil in someone, as it is everywhere.
They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere. You may ask, "Oh! When will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?"
And he is telling us when it does change, when the Lord enters our heart. It tells us why we meet all those negative traits all over, not like with the scorpion only in the tail or the cobra only in its fangs.
Offer unto the Lord, the 'flower of your heart' (Hrudaya Pushpam),after cleansing it thoroughly of the dust and pests (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc.) that infest it. Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
Did you offer unto the Lord the flower of your heart?
If we are too much into searching for what we would like from the Lord, we can forget that there is something we should offer to him.
If we don't get aware that we have to offer something in return, we can go on only taking and asking for it and it results in only taking advantage of it.
The attitude of only taking advantage of it seems to be a mind state that just wants to take, there is no idea about it that we should offer the heart to the Lord instead of taking advantage of it and we can tell him whatever he is going on in his mind state, someone like that doesn't hear it.
If there is no flower of the heart offered, there is also no cleansing it thoroughly of all the dust and pest (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc. ) what has accumulated during all life. We also cleanse the mind with meditation as well, but here it is really important to be 'we' as he said, 'you and I are we', first step. If we meditate and transcend the thought activity and the mind it means, 'you and I' that is the mind state which has to be transcended and after transcending if we get to a state of 'we', in our meditation practice we would call it transcendental state, as there is a group of people together, what we did also with mediation, we meditate in big groups to have a purifying effect on world consciousness, 'we' are in that sense the transcended mind and not the body or the mind, 'we' can be compared to transcendental being and the second step is 'we and he is I'. It should never be 'I or you', but only 'we' and if we answer on the level of 'you and I' we are in the mind level. We have to go beyond the body and the mind, they have to be transcended, if we answer on the level of 'you and I' we are in the mind, it is always 'we and the divine principle. In our meditation practice it showed us how to go inside, he is the knower and he is the doer, he taught us how to use the mantra and how to go inside and even if we knew it in the end because we practiced, the knowledge is anyhow He or Veda or the divine principle.
If we go on in an infested mind state there is no way it will get better, but probably only worse in time, we have to purify and cleanse the mind and the heart in one way or another.
And without effort, can there be victory in any field?
It doesn't work without self-effort. Sometimes it is understood as 'he is the doer, people don't do anything and think he will do it and that is a big misunderstanding. We still have to do it or there is in the end nothing done. It just means that 'He' is the higher wisdom, that wisdom in the Vedas was seen by the seers and that is 'He' and beyond the body and the mind, therefore, it is always 'He' the doer, but if we don't do it, nothing will be done. It seems there is a lot of confusion going on about this level and in the West lots of people seem to have troubles understanding it right.
It definitely doesn't mean we have to do nothing, it means we have to do every effort possible to understand it right that it is right action and because it is in self-inquiry and we have to discriminate between right and wrong, finally when we know it is right, 'He is the doer', it is our higher self, not the body and not the mind, but nevertheless, without self-effort it doesn't work.
We have above all to listen to his words, if we don't do it and we do not think it over all our conclusions are in the mind only and that is not 'He', that is on the wrong level and on the level of 'you and I', it is also not on the level of 'we'. If we don't listen to his words, it will be just a mind conclusion and it is false.
He is the knower means that we should never look for the answers in our own mind, we don't look for it in the mind, but we look for it in him words, where else could he be? We should listen, and think it over to be able to absorb the wisdom.
He is the doer is in that sense to be understood the same way. If we listen to his words, think it over and absorb, we have to find out what is right from wrong in his light in his words.
Baba said not long ago to know the difference between good and bad we have to resort to the scriptures, his words are for us the scriptures. If we think we know, we are in the mind. If we listen to him, we know what he is telling us and we have to discriminate between right and not right and that is why 'he is the doer', only when we look at it in the right light of wisdom, his words, we get the right meaning and therefore, he is the doer. If the mind is the doer, we don't know what we are doing.
The self-effort to listen, think it over and absorb has always to be there, no matter what.
We have to, he doesn't do it for us, he just tells us to do it. It is totally wrong understood if people hear, 'he is the doer', so everything is done and I don't have to do anything.
Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
The self effort means, we have to listen to him and we have to know the difference from right and not right and if we don't, we have to wait until we know. The Maharishi said to us, in case of doubt – never. In case of doubt, we wait until the doubt is gone.
And when we met there was no doubt, we would never have gone for it, if there would have been doubt, it looked really like a Baba Lila and that means no doubt.
Baba's dreams and the insights seemed to go in that direction only and he said he will take care of it, only today I know it was dream stage and there should have been an answer on that level. That is why I went for it at the first place. It seemed to be beyond doubt, it was not possible for me to see the background.
When he argumented that he could not have done that with an American, he refused to see it as a Baba Lila and that it would have been different if there would have been a country group. And it was in his interest that it was not so, so he could take advantage of it.
Someone would probably have told how it looks and that something was strange if we would have been part of that group and it would have been more transparent. As there was no such group, it was not transparent.
He pretended to be invited in that room of his big friend, that made him look good and it seems he enjoyed that image much too much to not take advantage of it, it make him look like successful and great, only months later it was clear that non of it was true.
We were focused on Darshan and not on what happened around us, we were not into ashram politics.
We had enough to do with getting the message and that seemed challenge enough without wondering about donors and owners behind it and why. He was full or praise about his big friend, it felt like an all different relationship all together and in reality I had no idea about it what it really was, he just made it look good and when he began to put it in question some years later and I still went on in the idea that it had been a Baba Lila, the inside anger coming up was really beyond words. It was not only fooling me, it was destroying everything and most of all what we believed in. I couldn't tell how I felt, but I always had the feeling is I explode, someone could get killed. It was actually awful to be in that situation and therefore, I had for the child sake to find a way out and I just said, 'Baba did it, he will find a way' even if he said more or less that he did it, I probably pretended to not hear it or I couldn't near it, because it was too dangerous and I don't know what I would have done.
It was only flattering to him the stories he made up with his so called best friend and we found out that he was never a friend, he lived in his room because he didn't find a job, he was out of job and he went there, because he had nothing else to do.
He has never become a devotee, his mind is sick and focused still on the wrong stuff and there trace of devotion in him, just taking advantage of it and that is what Baba said in the insight that he took just advantage of it.
There was not only Baba, but also TM in the background he said y had TM experiences and Baba, there was that much good about it, why should I not go for it? If it would have been real, it would have been stupid if I would not had gone for it, at least i had to give it a try.
He said he would work with you again and that felt charming as we all were with Sai Baba and he said it a way that there was no doubt about it, even if it was not true.
There were too many appearances, on many levels it seemed to be the same, first with Baba and with TM and work and job and spiritual background, it sounded great. There was no doubt, too many things came together and it made it look good.
But today we know it was appearance only, it was all illusion.
The social differences in the presence of Baba didn't stand out like in our society and we were not aware of it, and even less, because I was not in that country group. If I would have been in that group, there would have been some comment making it look differently, but the way it was, that was not so.
The illusion seemed nearly perfect, it was an illusion nevertheless.
There was no reality in it, he made it up and afterwards he said that he couldn't have done that with an American. In that moment he didn't pretend anymore that it was a Lila, but as it had been for me, it was difficult to get. And the question was still what was true and what was not true.
He was abusive and it was in purpose to create bad feelings and the same happened with the Baba dream, but there I got aware of it.
Baba was in his dream and told him that I had to come to him to make peace with him.
He found it hilarious and he didn't stop making fun of it that I had to go and make peace with Baba. It didn't occur to him that it was stupid to not get aware that it was a Baba dream and that something was behind it, it was the reflection of his state of mind.
I had to go and make peace with Baba and in that moment we had to let him talk, but I thought we will see in the end who is the stupid one.
He was ridiculous as it was Baba, Atma is always in peace, but in that moment it was too confusing. I didn't tell him, but dear, it is your dream and you should look at it. Baba dreams are always different than we think they are, there is a lesson in it.
Normally I would have said that and before I always did, but he made fun of it in such a way and went on and on, it felt like a shit hole and the beautiful devotee dream was gone. There was no joy even if it was reason for joy as it was a Baba call but it was not possible to tell him without hurting myself, so it was not possible and I didn't talk to him anymore, I was waiting that we left and I also didn't call anymore. As it was not possible to talk on that level there was nothing to tell anymore.
Lord Krishna incarnated to destroy evil in a handful of individuals. But now, the evil qualities are not identifiable in a small group of people. They are widespread everywhere. The scorpion has poison only in its tail; the cobra only in its fangs; but people have poison all over them! They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere.
Baba is telling us with his words that we cannot see the evil in a small group of people, it can be everywhere and that poison is all over them.
They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere.
What makes the difference for us? A real devotees, doesn't want to be part of that poison really. It is about everywhere, so how do we recognize it?
You may ask, "Oh! When will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?" When the Lord enters your heart, that is the very objective He will accomplish. Offer unto the Lord, the 'flower of your heart' (Hrudaya Pushpam),after cleansing it thoroughly of the dust and pests (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc.) that infest it. Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
How can we counteract and destroy the poison?
Only if the Lord enters our heart and that is not exactly present if there is no change and he just takes advantage of it.
The poison which expands everywhere has not changed it is still in the eyes, he makes it look different, he is living in a dream. His tongue is speaking not the truth, but untruth, nothing is true he ever said and nothing of it is real and in the mind, he is constantly thinking about something that is not real and he doesn't learn and he talks always about the same stuff no matter how long he had been in the ashram, he goes on talking about the wrong level and even if Baba said in his dream, 'give, give, give, I will not give, you lived a dream that is your problem not mine'.
They have it in their eyes, their tongues, their mind, their intelligence, their gait, their brain – just about everywhere.
He goes on living in a dream and he doesn't get aware of it not even after we had left. I don't get the ignominy of the statement that he has fooled us into it and it was in the insight about 'amok' and I thought, why he tells us amok. I guess if I would have realized what he had done it really felt like running amok and I didn't know where that came from.
He felt to me like overclouded, but I always saw Baba behind it and thought that there must something good in it and he destroyed the good. He talks about the same stuff constantly and that since years. It is in the brain, it turns around the same issue and it feels like a virus has infested his brain, he is nuts, he has lost his mind. He is a sick guy how needs to deceive people to make himself feel better and he destroyed the good Baba is creating and in that sense he is worse than the sickest demon.
The way he talks, the way he expressed his poor and mean thoughts and the way I had to handle it, it was actually that dangerous that I always said, 'Baba will find a way'. He is old, ugly and inflexible, he is frustrated, mean and bad.
The only thing that didn't make sense was that he was living in that room in the ashram. How in the hell did that sick brain get in that place? He was on the ideal place to just take advantage of it. He suffers of the virus of 'think and get rich' and goes to a Sai Baba and expects him to give and he goes on in his sick little dream even if the Lord said to him in his dream, 'give, give, give, I will not give, you lived a dream, that is your problem not mine', but do you think that with that brain a light goes on, of course not, he forgets it and goes on as always. Nothing has changed in that mind, he goes on like programmed and he got the wrong program and he goes on thinking in those lines and he is not able to get out of it.
It is kind shocking to get aware of such a mind state. He has misused the opportunity to offer to the Lord the flower of his heart, he took only advantage of it and he tells he meditates, but he is full of poison, he doesn't meditate, he just pretends to do it and probably thinks with the years as he goes on like that, he will find again someone stupid like me who believes him. He always said he did it and he has never done it.
There is no discrimination. To know the difference between insight or dream stage and waking stage, he would have to be present and not just evil and mean and playing a sick game with people, living in a fantasy world. Only people using discrimination get that difference and he will never get it, he is too stupid to see what he does. And if he tells a thousand times that he did it in purpose and that he never could have done that with an American, that guy has said so much stupid stuff since I know him that I don't remember it anymore, I stopped to listen, because it was anyhow only bullshitting us. It was just the question how to get out of it. If it was for him no Baba Lila, his problem and not mine, for me it was one and that is how I went on. But that awkward character of a sick, mean and ugly person thinks that Baba is giving him all he wants, that is his trade mark. He goes on misusing the name of the Lord and with a mean cruelty in the heart enjoys to be a pain in the ass for other. He is dreadful, he lives in his dream and goes on in his evil ways.
You may ask, "Oh! When will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?" When the Lord enters your heart, that is the very objective He will accomplish. Offer unto the Lord, the 'flower of your heart' (Hrudaya Pushpam),after cleansing it thoroughly of the dust and pests (desire, anger, envy, doubt, etc.) that infest it.
Without effort, can there be victory in any field? Can you become a high ranking official without the appropriate qualifications of scholarship, talent, experience and wisdom? So persevere and succeed!
If the heart is not a hrudyaa pushpam as we did with puja, we offered flowers to the tradition of the masters, it is an offering in the puja to purify our own heart and that is what Baba describes here and only after we had purified the mind and the heart with the offerings, we took the mantra and gave it the person who was there to be initiated.
The puja was for the purification of our own mind and the elevation in the tradition of the masters so that the teaching should remain pure. That is what we had learnt with TM and with becoming TM-teachers and that is how we initiated people and most of people have no idea about it.
It was also an effort when we had to initiate new meditators into TM, it was a scared moment we shared in offering the flowers of the heart to Guru Dev and the tradition of masters and then only after that puja and moment of purity in mind and heart, we gave the mantra to the new meditator.
And that is what he said, when he was initiated, he knew he would do it all his life, but he actually never did it. Half of the course was paid as it seems by his boss and he anyhow only did it to please his boss and he never did it.
There is no use if we give the mantra to someone who doesn't use it, it is just like a seed, those mantras are seed mantras and only if we water it that plant will grow so just because he was initiated he is in now way watering the plant and that cannot be called mediation however crooked he turns it to make it look good, it is not meditation and it is not watering the plant, it is just as Baba tells developing the imaginative faculty of the mind taking advantage of the delusion of the natural characteristic of the universe and the mind uses it for self-elevation and self-aggrandizement and behind is nothing but an ego maniac.
As he never did it, everything he pretends to be on a spiritual level is just nothing, it is all based on pretending and developing the imaginative faculty of the mind, he believes is and goes on living his dream in his mind only.
He is that stupid he is not even able to realize that he is actually living a dream, he thinks if he tells it long enough it will become real and there is no chance that it will ever become real, he is just living his dream. He thinks he can go on dreaming and Baba will give him something and whatever he wants ... go on dreaming, but he doesn't stop and not even when the man in the dream is there to awake him and he told him already, 'I will not give, you lived a dream and that is your problem not mine'.
I had no idea what it was, when he told me about that dream of his.
It is childish and a spiritual Kindergarten and it is projected at the Lord figure outside.
It is kind of sad really some devotees seems to never have past that stage in their spiritual development. If the look like old fashioned like three hundred years ago dressed up in old fashioned garments that is the old traditions they tried to live on a mind level and holing on to cultural values what is misunderstood and like a virus infecting the mind, it feels also like a sickness, whatever that is, old traditions, old manners, old-fashioned and not modern, it is all on the mind level and has nothing to do with truth.
That insight about all that old fashioned thinking going on and taking it for 'that' and it seems seven million, that many people are in that state of mind. The mind is also a common sharing place, where it is understood that we do it that way, but it has nothing to do with truth and it feels like a cultural virus infection of the mind what makes them look older and they think that is what Baba wants and that is again the mind, they don't listen to him and they don't know how to listen to him. Nobody cares if it is true or not true and nobody is listening to his words. he is only present in his words, not in the old fashioned idea about culture and traditions and it means, mind and there he is not. They just go used to it and feel like a family only the one they are really looking for is not present. He is in his word and nowhere else, he is truth and we only find truth in his words.
Love is my form, truth is my breath, bliss is my food. (Baba)
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